"They had a guy in another room, Bill Brace, an artist, and he was doing
all these matte paintings where the trees were blooming and the apples
were growing. And he painted the future scenes, too, where you saw the
topography of the land changing, and the Eloi temple being built. The whole
dome of that was a painting matted in, and the stairway leading up to it
was part of MGM's old QUO VADIS set."